The First Indo-Pakistani War was the first of three Indo-Pakistani Wars fought in the 20th century, occurring in the immediate aftermath of the Partition of India as the Hindu-dominated state of India and the Muslim-dominated state of Pakistan fought over the disputed princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, a Muslim-majority and Hindu-ruled region. Intercommunal violence in both India and Pakistan heightened tensions between the newly-independent states, and, within weeks of Pakistan's independence in 1947, Pakistani tribesmen from Waziristan invaded Kashmir with the objective of preventing the Muslim-majority province from being annexed to India. The western districts of Kashmir were captured by Muslim rebels who had risen up against Maharaja Hari Singh in Poonch, and the arrival of the tribal militias on 22 October 1947 was followed by a combined Pakistani and Kashmiri assault on Srinagar. However, the local tribal militias and irregular Pakistani forces stopped to plunder Baramulla, where they stalled until Hari Singh secured the aid of India in exchange for his signing of an Instrument of Accession to India. Following Kashmir's accession to India on 26 October 1947, Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar. In 1948, the British commanding officers of the Pakistan Army - despite initial resistance - ultimately relented and allowed for Pakistan's regular armies to enter the war. The war devolved into a stalemate, and a ceasefire was declared on 1 January 1949, with the front lines becoming the informal "Line of Control" border between the Indian-held Kashmir Valley, Jammu, and Ladakh and the Pakistani-controlled Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. India's ability to acquire two-thirds of Kashmir left it as the victor of the first war, but the unresolved Kashmir conflict would lead to a Second Indo-Pakistani War in 1965 and the Kargil War in 1999.